After Nobu debuts its Las Vegas tower, the hospitality group will turn its attentions to the Middle East: hotels in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are in the works.

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It doesn't matter that the bonhomie is as faux as the Vegas Eiffel Tower.

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Weddings are performed in gondolas at the Venetian or atop the Eiffel Tower at Paris Las Vegas.

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But in recent years it has become the home of huge empty lots and darkened projects, including Las Vegas Plaza and Fontainebleau Las Vegas, a hulking bluish-green tower that was 70 percent finished when construction ended.

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The north Strip is also home to the Fontainebleau Las Vegas, a hulking bluish-green tower that was 70 percent completed when the construction workers were dismissed, and the Sahara hotel-casino, which went dark in 2011, and only recently began renovations.

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Unless you want to live in a condo tower on the Strip, living in Las Vegas means living in the suburbs.

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Leisure Parcs, a company which owns many of the local attractions, including the famed tower and Winter Gardens, thinks the solution to Blackpool's problems is to turn it into Las Vegas.

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